The First Star
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his promise, his wife will divorce him.
Our read · The First Star (2009) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of The First Star
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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